mysociety/fixmystreet
Nov 2024 – Oct 2025
11 Months active
Languages Used
HTMLPerlSCSSJavaScriptShellYAML
Technical Skills
Backend DevelopmentCSV ExportFront End DevelopmentHTML TemplatingTestingWeb Development
Chris Mytton
PROFILE
Chris Mytton
Chris M. contributed to mysociety/fixmystreet by delivering a wide range of features and fixes that improved data quality, user experience, and system maintainability. Over 11 months, Chris enhanced regional branding, streamlined CSV exports, and integrated payment gateways, using Perl, JavaScript, and HTML templating. He refactored backend logic for configurability, optimized database queries, and implemented robust error handling for API integrations. His work included aligning UI flows with local requirements, strengthening access control, and supporting Open311 interoperability. Chris’s engineering approach emphasized test coverage, maintainable code, and clear user messaging, resulting in reliable, adaptable solutions for complex civic workflows.
Overall Statistics
Feature vs Bugs
74%Features
Repository Contributions
47Total
Bugs
9
Commits
47
Features
26
Lines of code
3,158
Activity Months11
Your Network
12 people
Work History
October 2025
2 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2025October 2025 highlights for mysociety/fixmystreet: focused UI and maintainability improvements around garden waste subscriptions. Key features delivered: refactored the garden waste modification summary to use a shared payment method template, aligning with the new subscription template to improve consistency and maintainability. Major bugs fixed: corrected a spelling error ('calender' -> 'calendar') on the garden waste amend confirmation page across templates to ensure accurate user messaging regarding subscription changes. Overall impact and accomplishments: improved user messaging accuracy and UI consistency across subscription flows, reduced technical debt by removing an unused Echo module method, and laid groundwork for future template-driven enhancements. Technologies/skills demonstrated: template-driven UI refactors, cross-module refactor, commit-level traceability, and code cleanup.
2 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2025October 2025 highlights for mysociety/fixmystreet: focused UI and maintainability improvements around garden waste subscriptions. Key features delivered: refactored the garden waste modification summary to use a shared payment method template, aligning with the new subscription template to improve consistency and maintainability. Major bugs fixed: corrected a spelling error ('calender' -> 'calendar') on the garden waste amend confirmation page across templates to ensure accurate user messaging regarding subscription changes. Overall impact and accomplishments: improved user messaging accuracy and UI consistency across subscription flows, reduced technical debt by removing an unused Echo module method, and laid groundwork for future template-driven enhancements. Technologies/skills demonstrated: template-driven UI refactors, cross-module refactor, commit-level traceability, and code cleanup.
October 2025
September 2025
6 Commits • 5 Features
Sep 1, 2025September 2025 performance summary for mysociety/fixmystreet: Delivered several targeted features across Northumberland export, Merton/Sutton cobrand UX, and admin capabilities, plus a critical data integrity fix. These changes improve data accuracy, user experience, and brand governance, while enabling Echo-assisted workflows.
September 2025
6 Commits • 5 Features
Sep 1, 2025September 2025 performance summary for mysociety/fixmystreet: Delivered several targeted features across Northumberland export, Merton/Sutton cobrand UX, and admin capabilities, plus a critical data integrity fix. These changes improve data accuracy, user experience, and brand governance, while enabling Echo-assisted workflows.
August 2025
2 Commits • 2 Features
Aug 1, 2025Concise monthly summary for 2025-08 focused on key features delivered, major fixes, and business impact for mysociety/fixmystreet.
2 Commits • 2 Features
Aug 1, 2025Concise monthly summary for 2025-08 focused on key features delivered, major fixes, and business impact for mysociety/fixmystreet.
August 2025
June 2025
4 Commits • 3 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet focusing on delivering regional features, reliability improvements, and consistent user messaging across Gloucester, Peterborough, and Merton. The work emphasizes business value through data quality, user guidance, and Open311 readiness.
June 2025
4 Commits • 3 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet focusing on delivering regional features, reliability improvements, and consistent user messaging across Gloucester, Peterborough, and Merton. The work emphasizes business value through data quality, user guidance, and Open311 readiness.
May 2025
4 Commits • 2 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet: Delivered critical access control for report updates and Gloucester cobrand regional enhancements, increasing security, regional capability, and user experience. Implemented configurable 'open/staff' option to control updates on reports by state and role, enabling granular control over report status modifications. Activated Gloucester regional features with flags and validations, added disambiguation support via admin display_name, and improved initial map view to enhance usability. These changes drive security, operational flexibility for regional deployments, and a smoother user experience for volunteers and staff.
4 Commits • 2 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet: Delivered critical access control for report updates and Gloucester cobrand regional enhancements, increasing security, regional capability, and user experience. Implemented configurable 'open/staff' option to control updates on reports by state and role, enabling granular control over report status modifications. Activated Gloucester regional features with flags and validations, added disambiguation support via admin display_name, and improved initial map view to enhance usability. These changes drive security, operational flexibility for regional deployments, and a smoother user experience for volunteers and staff.
May 2025
April 2025
4 Commits • 2 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet focused on targeted data integrity improvements, UX alignment with local contexts, and Echo-system compatibility across Bexley, Hart, and Sutton areas. Delivered concise changes with strong traceability to commits, enhancing service relevance and maintainability.
April 2025
4 Commits • 2 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet focused on targeted data integrity improvements, UX alignment with local contexts, and Echo-system compatibility across Bexley, Hart, and Sutton areas. Delivered concise changes with strong traceability to commits, enhancing service relevance and maintainability.
March 2025
8 Commits • 2 Features
Mar 1, 2025March 2025 monthly delivery focused on stabilizing and enhancing the Bexley Garden Waste Direct Debit flow and PaySuite integration in mysociety/fixmystreet. Delivered robust Direct Debit lifecycle enhancements, improved transaction clarity via narrative customization, fixed critical HTTP header handling and idempotency issues, and strengthened data integrity with duplicate submission prevention. Together these changes deliver smoother onboarding, more reliable payments, and clearer transaction records for Bexley Garden Waste.
8 Commits • 2 Features
Mar 1, 2025March 2025 monthly delivery focused on stabilizing and enhancing the Bexley Garden Waste Direct Debit flow and PaySuite integration in mysociety/fixmystreet. Delivered robust Direct Debit lifecycle enhancements, improved transaction clarity via narrative customization, fixed critical HTTP header handling and idempotency issues, and strengthened data integrity with duplicate submission prevention. Together these changes deliver smoother onboarding, more reliable payments, and clearer transaction records for Bexley Garden Waste.
March 2025
February 2025
7 Commits • 4 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 (mysociety/fixmystreet) – Key features delivered, bugs fixed, and ongoing improvements that strengthen reporting, data quality, and payment workflows. The work demonstrates robust test coverage, configuration management for cobranding, and UX refinements that improve stakeholder-facing accuracy and usability. Sections: 1) Key features delivered 2) Major bugs fixed 3) Overall impact and accomplishments 4) Technologies/skills demonstrated
February 2025
7 Commits • 4 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 (mysociety/fixmystreet) – Key features delivered, bugs fixed, and ongoing improvements that strengthen reporting, data quality, and payment workflows. The work demonstrates robust test coverage, configuration management for cobranding, and UX refinements that improve stakeholder-facing accuracy and usability. Sections: 1) Key features delivered 2) Major bugs fixed 3) Overall impact and accomplishments 4) Technologies/skills demonstrated
January 2025
4 Commits • 2 Features
Jan 1, 2025Concise monthly summary for 2025-01 focusing on key achievements for mysociety/fixmystreet. Delivered three primary items that enhance configurability, data quality, and user clarity. Key features and fixes implemented in January 2025: - Echo integration enhancement: Introduced address_types attribute and refactored FindPoints to use the new attribute, enabling address type filtering to be configured without passing the entire configuration object. This improves code organization, flexibility, and runtime behavior. - Waste bin policy and guidance content updates: Added user-facing content explaining the council's authority to charge for general waste bins and clarified related policies to improve user understanding and reduce potential support inquiries. - Waste collection log deduplication: Fixed issue where duplicate waste collection logs (same reason, round code, and date) could be presented; now only unique logs are processed and displayed. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Improved configurability and maintainability of the Echo integration by isolating address-type filtering logic. - Enhanced user comprehension through updated policy content, reducing ambiguity and potential inquiries. - Strengthened data integrity in waste collection processing by eliminating duplicates. - Demonstrated end-to-end delivery from design/refactor through UX content to data hygiene, aligning with product quality and user value. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Python refactoring and integration design (Echo integration, FindPoints refactor) - UX/content update for policy guidance - Data hygiene and deduplication logic - Commit-driven development and maintainable code structure
4 Commits • 2 Features
Jan 1, 2025Concise monthly summary for 2025-01 focusing on key achievements for mysociety/fixmystreet. Delivered three primary items that enhance configurability, data quality, and user clarity. Key features and fixes implemented in January 2025: - Echo integration enhancement: Introduced address_types attribute and refactored FindPoints to use the new attribute, enabling address type filtering to be configured without passing the entire configuration object. This improves code organization, flexibility, and runtime behavior. - Waste bin policy and guidance content updates: Added user-facing content explaining the council's authority to charge for general waste bins and clarified related policies to improve user understanding and reduce potential support inquiries. - Waste collection log deduplication: Fixed issue where duplicate waste collection logs (same reason, round code, and date) could be presented; now only unique logs are processed and displayed. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Improved configurability and maintainability of the Echo integration by isolating address-type filtering logic. - Enhanced user comprehension through updated policy content, reducing ambiguity and potential inquiries. - Strengthened data integrity in waste collection processing by eliminating duplicates. - Demonstrated end-to-end delivery from design/refactor through UX content to data hygiene, aligning with product quality and user value. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Python refactoring and integration design (Echo integration, FindPoints refactor) - UX/content update for policy guidance - Data hygiene and deduplication logic - Commit-driven development and maintainable code structure
January 2025
December 2024
3 Commits • 2 Features
Dec 1, 2024December 2024 monthly summary focusing on business value and technical achievements. Delivered a bug fix and three features across mysociety/fixmystreet: corrected the assisted collections flag for Bexley using property.has_assisted; added garden waste image support for Sutton cobranding with SVG mapping for container type 28 and associated tests; standardized Public Rights of Way naming in Central Beds cobranding and updated road-selection logic. These changes improve data accuracy, branding consistency, and user experience across brands, supported by targeted tests validating imagery and behavior. Technologies demonstrated include data-driven flag evaluation, SVG asset handling, unit testing, and cross-branding alignment.
December 2024
3 Commits • 2 Features
Dec 1, 2024December 2024 monthly summary focusing on business value and technical achievements. Delivered a bug fix and three features across mysociety/fixmystreet: corrected the assisted collections flag for Bexley using property.has_assisted; added garden waste image support for Sutton cobranding with SVG mapping for container type 28 and associated tests; standardized Public Rights of Way naming in Central Beds cobranding and updated road-selection logic. These changes improve data accuracy, branding consistency, and user experience across brands, supported by targeted tests validating imagery and behavior. Technologies demonstrated include data-driven flag evaluation, SVG asset handling, unit testing, and cross-branding alignment.
November 2024
3 Commits • 1 Features
Nov 1, 2024Month 2024-11 — FixMyStreet (mysociety/fixmystreet): Delivered Surrey cobrand enhancements to improve regional branding, clarity, and data export interoperability. Key work included a Surrey-specific header logo template linked to Surrey County Council, clarified explanatory text for the happy-or-not data usage section, and an enhanced CSV export to include External ID, with updated tests. No major bugs fixed this month; focus was on feature delivery and quality assurance to support better user experience and data interoperability.
3 Commits • 1 Features
Nov 1, 2024Month 2024-11 — FixMyStreet (mysociety/fixmystreet): Delivered Surrey cobrand enhancements to improve regional branding, clarity, and data export interoperability. Key work included a Surrey-specific header logo template linked to Surrey County Council, clarified explanatory text for the happy-or-not data usage section, and an enhanced CSV export to include External ID, with updated tests. No major bugs fixed this month; focus was on feature delivery and quality assurance to support better user experience and data interoperability.
November 2024
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Quality Metrics
Correctness94.6%
Maintainability92.8%
Architecture90.6%
Performance89.4%
AI Usage20.0%
Skills & Technologies
Programming Languages
HTMLJavaScriptPerlSCSSShellYAML
Technical Skills
API IntegrationBackend DevelopmentBug FixingCSV ExportCSV ProcessingConfigurationConfiguration ManagementData ExportData FilteringDatabase Query OptimizationError HandlingForm HandlingFront End DevelopmentFront end developmentFrontend Development
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